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	Analisi co-citazionale assistita da VOSviewer	Analisi Bibliometrica
Campo	Scientometria	Scientometria
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1973 (co-citation); VOSviewer workflow from ~2010	1969 (term coined); practice dates to 1920s–1930s
Ideatore	Henry Small (co-citation, 1973); Nees Jan van Eck & Ludo Waltman (VOSviewer, 2010)	Alan Pritchard (coined term); earlier quantitative work by Paul Otlet (1934) and S. C. Bradford (1934)
Tipo	Bibliometric network analysis	Quantitative literature analysis
Fonte seminale	Small, H. (1973). Co-citation in the scientific literature: A new measure of the relationship between two documents. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 24(4), 265–269.	Pritchard, A. (1969). Statistical bibliography or bibliometrics? Journal of Documentation, 25(4), 348–349.
Alias	VOSviewer co-citation mapping, bibliometric co-citation visualization, co-citation network analysis with VOSviewer, CCA-VOSviewer	bibliometrics, bibliometric study, bibliometric mapping, publication analysis
Correlati	6	6
Sintesi	VOSviewer-assisted co-citation analysis combines Henry Small's co-citation measure — counting how often two documents are jointly cited by later work — with VOSviewer's automated network construction and visual mapping capabilities. The result is a spatial map of the intellectual base of a research field, where documents that share many citing contexts cluster together, revealing foundational schools of thought and their relationships.	Bibliometric analysis applies statistical and mathematical methods to bibliographic records — publications, citations, authors, journals, and keywords — to measure and map the structure, output, and intellectual evolution of a research field. It is widely used to identify influential works, prolific authors, productive journals, collaboration networks, and emerging research themes across any academic discipline.